Scenes that scared the crap out of you as a kid.

[Gojirob]

Do you mean 'Five Million Years To Earth' aka Quatermass And The Pit?

Yeah that's it!

It has been a while since I watched that one.

Almost impossible to find that one on DVD. I saw it as a kid in the theater and it scared me too.

Another movie that really scared me as a kid was in the late 80s with the movie "The War of the Gargantuas" when the green Gargantua comes out of the ocean and attacks the airport and eats the woman and spits her dress out.

A point lost in the American dub is that the two Gargantuas are spawn of the Frankenstein creature from 'Frankenstein Conquers The World' aka Frankenstein Versus Baragon.

When I was a kid watching Godzilla 1956, the sight of him in industrial areas with high tension wiring made me think of nearby Jersey City, and I was always afraid he would strike there.

'Five Million Years...' aka Quatermass/Pit is out of print right now. I was lucky enough to catch the original BBC version, which in B&W was even creepier and richer in plot.

 

[Gojirob]

The transporter accident in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which was horrifc, I thought, the way they were writhing about and the horrible warbling scream the woman lets out. "What we got back didn't live long...fortunately" - that conjured up images that could never have been matched on screen.

Yeah. I have no recollection of seeing it as a child (though I must have done), but when watching it for the first time in many years when I bought the DVD 1-6 boxset last year, it really shocked me. The ear bugs in Khan don't get to me at all, but I'd struggle to watch the transporter accident again now. There's just something really visceral about it. And yet the film's a U.

In the novel, the woman who died with the Vulcan Sonak was Kirk's ex-girlfriend, beaming up to apologize for playing him as part of Starfleet's efforts to keep him deskbound.

For a technology that works 99% of the time, the transporter can sure end or mess up your life in some severe ways. When Hoshi believes she's fading out of existence on Enterprise, there's no gore but the helpless feeling she exudes is chilling.

 

[Tulaberry whine]

The Never Ending Story is the first film I remember seeing at the theatre as a kid. The scene towards the end where Atreyu is attacked by a monster wolf utterly terrified me and I'm pretty sure I closed my eyes for a good ten minutes after it happened.

 

[Pauln6]

The scene in Charlie X where the woman ends up with no face freaked me out a bit.

 

[Can]

Alien parasites entering through Remmick's throat , throat bulging , and his quite gory death under Picard and Riker's combined phaser fire THEN an explosion and here is the mother creature of parasites....( Star Trek TNG , Episode "Conspiracy" 1x21 )

I shudder everytime I remember it....Quite effective when you are a seven year old...I had the Picard's same expression of disgust....

 

[Deckerd]

The Childcatcher is a good one. Lots of people remember being terrified of him. Apparently he was a ballet dancer, which is why he was able to create that creepy way of moving around. I remember ending up behind the couch a lot during Doctor Who. There was one series when people were eating poisoned sugar and they got this terrible disease which made blood vessels appear on their skin. It scared the living crap out of me. We all loved Doctor Who.

 

[USS Avenger]

Put me down as another one for a Ghostbusters scene. When I was little my parents would pack me and my sister up in the station wagon and head down to the drive in for a double feature. We had blankets and pillows in the back so we could just fall asleep if we kiddies were out too late. Well in that scene where Dana gets home with her groceries she hears the growling from her fridge. I was screaming in the car "don't open it, don't open IT!" Of course before she could open the fridge I was hiding under the blankets in the back. I never saw what is was until years later and all I could think of was "that was it?"

 

[exodus]

When I was a kid watching Godzilla 1956, the sight of him in industrial areas with high tension wiring made me think of nearby Jersey City, and I was always afraid he would strike there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7gFlSGXt_k&feature=related

 

[Goliath]

Oddly enough, the scene that scared me the most, as a kid, was a scene from a book.

It was a photonovelization of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho--like a graphic novel, only with stills from the film. Do they still make those?

Anyway, I was totally engrossed, and read it as quickly as I could. The two murders didn't bother me overmuch, but then, close to the end--when Marion's sister is in the Bates house, and goes down to the cellar--

I flipped the page, and the picture of Mrs. Bates scared the crap out of me. It's one of the few times in my life I have actually felt a frisson of fear.

 

[Othello]

Only thing that TRULY freaked me out was Jaws. I lost it when the shark bit Quint in half and the blood came from his mouth. I was like 5-6 years old when I saw that and it scarred me for life. LOL The ocean STILL scares the bejessus out of me because of it.

 

[exodus]

Only thing that TRULY freaked me out was Jaws. I lost it when the shark bit Quint in half and the blood came from his mouth. I was like 5-6 years old when I saw that and it scarred me for life. LOL The ocean STILL scares the bejessus out of me because of it.

That's my favorite scene for that reason.

 

[Greg Cox]

The scene in Charlie X where the woman ends up with no face freaked me out a bit.

Me, too!

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

The Never Ending Story is the first film I remember seeing at the theatre as a kid. The scene towards the end where Atreyu is attacked by a monster wolf utterly terrified me and I'm pretty sure I closed my eyes for a good ten minutes after it happened.

You have a point with The Neverending Story. It has some pretty terrifying scenes. Not the least of them being Morla. The realistic effects of the giant turtle head combined with the depressing setting was scary.

But there were two scenes in particular that were scary as hell when I was a kid.

The moment Atreyu found the mirror gateway, stared into it, saw Bastian and Bastian saw him, too!!!
The other scene were almost at the end, when Phantasia was all but destroyed, only the childlike empress was left and she turned and spoke directly into the camera...

Breaking the fourth wall in both instances so drastically were chilling to the bones for me. During the whole movie Bastian basically was us watching and then he became part of the story. During the whole time you fantasize about that, but when it becomes real it's hiding behind your couch time!

 

[GalaxyX]

I hated, HATED the scene in Superman 3 where the bad guy's secretary gets turned into a robot. That scene gave me nightmares for years. I still shudder thinking about it. In fact, I just shuddered right now typing that.

Hmm, you know that is pretty creepy, but for some reason it doesn't bother me at all. I just see it as some idiotic plot point in a movie that wasn't really that good, and that lady deserved it anyway for wanting to kill Superman by basically asphyxiating him.


The scene in Robocop where the bad guys are basically turning Murphy into ground beef was pretty sickening to me as a kid. Even when I watch it now I realize how graphic that scene is.

Speaking of ground beef, that scene in "Rumble in the Bronx" with Jackie Chan, where that guy gets tossed into the meat grinder and then stuffed into a garbage bag. We don't actually "see" any of it, but the idea of it, yuck!!

And there were 2 McGyver episodes that totally creeped me out. The one with the russian defectors and the spy who was killing them with that remote control (that looked like a flashlight with a big red bulb). I thought it was some type of device that you could kill people with instantaneously without any trace, like a ray gun that would shut you down forever. That scared the shit out of me. (Only later did I find out that the people who were killed had some device surgically rigged to their hearts that would cut the artery or whatever it did, and that wasn't much consolation ). Another McGyver scene that scared the crap outta me was when McGyver is in medieval times with Merlin, and that one bad guy gets tossed into the lava and all you see is the skeleton floating back up to the top. Yeah, that messed me up for a couple of weeks.

The worst offender and most silly one of all was this stupid Disney cartoon where Mickey Mouse turned Donald Duck into a paper cutout and was playing with the cut out and then turned him back to normal. I kept thinking "if he tears that cut out he's essentially killing Donald Duck!! That makes me sick to this day and I hated Disney for the longest time for that.

 

[Scout101]

Basically all of Event Horizon, which I decided looked like kinda a cool sci fi movie to watch while I was house-sitting alone. Yeah, oops...

 

[Jptrekker]

Another nightmare inducing movie from my childhood was Disney's The Black Hole. Especially when we discover what has really happened to the original crew. *shivers*

This, and at the end of the movie after they've gone through the black hole and it shows the crew marching through hell (or whatever), that just got to me.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

The Gremlin peering in through the plane's window at Shatner in "Terror at 20,000 Feet" on the Twilight Zone. It is a pretty laughable monster as I look at it now, but at the time it scarred the crap out of me

The gremlin in the movie version is scary as hell too.

Two of mine are the Zulu Devil Fetish Doll from "Trilogy of Terror", and a child/thing from either Tales from the Crypt or Tales of the Darkside. It lived in a little room at the back of a closet of an upstairs bedroom in it's father's house. Daddy had a penchent for bringing home cute co-ed grad students as boarders for it to eat.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

oh yeah, I'd like to add the "BrainIAC" transformation scene at the end of Superman III where the woman turns into the machine as one scary scene as a young boy.

 

[Greg Cox]

The Gremlin peering in through the plane's window at Shatner in "Terror at 20,000 Feet" on the Twilight Zone. It is a pretty laughable monster as I look at it now, but at the time it scarred the crap out of me

The gremlin in the movie version is scary as hell too.

Two of mine are the Zulu Devil Fetish Doll from "Trilogy of Terror".

Okay, I can't resist pointing out that both "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Trilogy of Terror" were both written by Richard Matheson. As was the spider scene in "The Incredible Shrinking Man."

Throw in "The Night Stalker" and "Duel" and you could probably make up a long list of crap-scaring scenes just by Matheson alone!

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Well, sure. He's the man.